Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Martial Arts
Director: Billy Chan
Year: 1987

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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Before we get started on Code Of Honor, I’d like to vent a little bit.
The state of Hong Kong film preservation is simply deplorable. For example, the best print Tai Seng could get for Code Of Honor was an old […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Horror/ Drama
Director: Oxide Pang
Year: 2004

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NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Here’s the problem: with Ab-Normal Beauty, writer/director Oxide Pang creates a thoughtful, lovely examination of the artistic mind, but then he takes a big dump on his own work by tacking on horror/thriller elements which don’t add to the discussion he started. The shame […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama
Director: Derek Yee
Year: 2007

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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I don’t suppose I should be surprised that Protege is as good as it is. After all, it was directed by Derek Yee, whose other films include People’s Hero, C’est La Vie Mon Cheri, and the great five hanky romance Lost In Time.
Protege features that […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/Exploitation
Director: Gwai Chi-Hung
Year: 1974

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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I’m not a big fan of the Shaw Brothers house style, so I wasn’t really looking forward to seeing Bamboo House of Dolls. I figured, the Chinese are fairly modest now (Category III flicks are fairly tame in terms of sexual content), so back in […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action
Director: Yuen Wo-Ping
Year: 1988

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TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
After enduring the lackluster Danger Has Two Faces, I felt like I owed myself a treat, so I finally sat down and watched the legendary Tiger Cage, which I’d only seen in bits and pieces up until now.
Tiger Cage starts out with a blistering action […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action
Director: Alex Cheung
Year: 1985

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NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Danger Has Two Faces is one of those transitional films caught between the older Shaw Brothers style and the Golden Age of Hong Kong. Oddly enough, as the film progresses, it becomes steadily more modern.
At first, the acting and direction are so hyper-stylized that the […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts
Director: Billy Tang
Year: 1989

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WORTH A LOOK
Despite having great stars like Jet Li and Dick Wei in their prime, a decent story line, and Stephen Chow not hamming it up with his trademark nonsense comedy antics as usual, Dragon Fight feels remarkably lackluster.
Surprisingly, I’d have to blame it on poor […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy/ Action
Director: Phillip Chan
Year: 1986

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NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
When you’re making hot chocolate, a fatal mistake is to put too much milk and sugar, and not enough chocolate. It may seem obvious that chocolate is what gives hot chocolate it’s flavor, but go to almost any coffee shop and you’ll find that […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/ Action/ Horror/ Category III/ Exploitation
Director: Jeng Kin-Ping
Year: 1992

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WORTH A LOOK
Suburb Murder is pretty hard to take seriously. I was sorta willing to overlook the multiple gang rapes (surely one or two would have been enough), the gratuitous visits to massage parlours and so forth, but what really put it over […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy/ Action/ Martial Arts/ Romance
Director: Alfred Cheung
Year: 1988

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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Hong Kong is the birthplace of the dreaded nonsense comedy, the former British colony’s answer to Jerry Lewis. In other words, watching these so-called comedies is about as amusing as witnessing a partial abortion to most non-Chinese people. (Stephen Chow […]